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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEHappiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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